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II. CATEGORIES
An award shall be given for the best achievement in each of two
categories.
A. Animated Short Film
An animated film is created by using a frame-by-frame technique, and
usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: character
or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include cel
animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation,
cutouts, pins, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects,
and drawing on the film frame itself. Documentary short subjects that
are animated may be submitted in either the animated short film
category or the documentary short subject category, but not both.
B. Live Action Short Film
A live action film uses live action techniques as the basic medium of
entertainment. Documentary short subjects will not be accepted in
the live action category.
III. ELIGIBILITY
A. To be eligible for award consideration for the 2010 Awards year, a
short film must fulfill one of the following qualifying criteria between
October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010. This qualification must
take place within two years of the film's completion date:
1. The picture must have been publicly exhibited for paid admission
in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County for
a run of at least three consecutive days with at least two
screenings a day. Films must be screened in 35mm or 70mm film
or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan format with a minimum
projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels; source image format
conforming to SMPTE 428-1-2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master
- Image Characteristics; image compression (if used) conforming
to ISOIIEC 15444-1 (JPEG 2000), and image and sound file
formats suitable for exhibition in commercial Digital Cinema sites.
The audio in a typical Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is 5.1
channels of discrete audio, and that is the preferred audio
configuration. The minimum for a non-mono configuration of the
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II. CATEGORIES
An award shall be given for the best achievement in each of two
categories.
A. Animated Short Film
An animated film is created by using a frame-by-frame technique, and
usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: character
or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include cel
animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation,
cutouts, pins, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects,
and drawing on the film frame itself. Documentary short subjects that
are animated may be submitted in either the animated short film
category or the documentary short subject category, but not both.
B. Live Action Short Film
A live action film uses live action techniques as the basic medium of
entertainment. Documentary short subjects will not be accepted in
the live action category.
III. ELIGIBILITY
A. To be eligible for award consideration for the 2010 Awards year, a
short film must fulfill one of the following qualifying criteria between
October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010. This qualification must
take place within two years of the film's completion date:
1. The picture must have been publicly exhibited for paid admission
in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County for
a run of at least three consecutive days with at least two
screenings a day. Films must be screened in 35mm or 70mm film
or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan format with a minimum
projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels; source image format
conforming to SMPTE 428-1-2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master
- Image Characteristics; image compression (if used) conforming
to ISOIIEC 15444-1 (JPEG 2000), and image and sound file
formats suitable for exhibition in commercial Digital Cinema sites.
The audio in a typical Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is 5.1
channels of discrete audio, and that is the preferred audio
configuration. The minimum for a non-mono configuration of the
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